8 thebigissue21Jun–4Jul2013
“My generation fought very hard
for feminism, and we fought very
hard to not be labelled as you had
to have a husband or you had to
be in a relationship, or you were
somehow not a cool chick. And
now I’m seeing that start to come
around again, where people say
to you, ‘Well, what do you mean
you don’t have a boyfriend? You
don’t want to have one? You don’t
want to be married?’ And you’re
like, ‘Well, no, I don’t, actually.
I’m fine.’ And they find a lot of
reasons why you’re not fine.”
The voice and vital ingredient of
legendary band Fleetwood Mac, Stevie
Nicks, on the difficulties of being single
and 65, which appear to be mainly the
problems other people have with it.
Sing it loud, Stevie. Fleetwood Mac
will tour Australia in November.
From Vulture (US).
“I say until we know what
we’re doing, until we have a
commander-in-chief who knows
what he’s doing, well, let these
radical Islamic countries who
aren’t even respecting basic
human rights, where both sides
are slaughtering each other as
they scream over an arbitrary red
line, ‘Allah Akbar’, I say until we
have someone who knows what
they’re doing, I say let Allah sort
it out.”
Former US vice presidential nominee
Sarah Palin (remember her?) shares
her idea for a resolution to the conflict
in Syria. The UN puts the death toll
in the Syrian uprising at more than
93,000, while the White House claims
to have conclusive evidence that
President Bashar al-Assad has used
chemical weapons against rebel forces.
From The Daily Mail (UK).
“I can see how the fact that I eat
one meal a day is eye-catching
for a journalist, but, you know,
David Petraeus eats one meal
a day, and nobody says that’s a
really disturbed relationship to
food. The assumption with David
Petraeus is, ‘oh, that’s a military
man’. In women the assumption
is you’re some kind of neurotic.”
Author Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk
About Kevin) on her dietary habits: “By
dinner, I’m starving; more crucially, I’m
deserving.” Her new novel, Big Brother,
is about a woman who helps her brother
lose weight. Shriver’s brother, who was
obese, died aged 55. From The New
York Times (US).
“I think what Kanye West is going
to mean is something similar
to what Steve Jobs means. I am
undoubtedly, you know, Steve
of internet, downtown, fashion,
culture. Period. By a long jump.
I honestly feel that because
Steve has passed, you know, it’s
like when Biggie [the Notorious
B.I.G.] passed [in 1997] and Jay-Z
was allowed to become Jay-Z.”
Recording artist Kanye West on the
death of Apple guru Steve Jobs, which
West thinks paves the way for him to
become leader of a massive company.
West just became a father to a baby girl
with someone called Kim Kardashian.
From The New York Times (US).
EvEn if i had marriEd a princE, i would
not bE happiEr than i am now.
Sister Teresita Barajuen on her life in the Buenafuente del
Sistal monastery in Spain, where she died recently, aged 105,
after a record 86 years in the cloisters. Teresita left behind
“three boyfriends” to join the monastery in 1927. Apart from
relocation during the Spanish Civil War, and a visit to see the
Pope in 2011, she never left. Via United Press International.
hearsay
writer richard castLes » cartoonist andrew weLdon
Mum: “You’ve been sick.
Are you sure you’re okay for
your party today?”
Son, 6: “I’m not sick. I’m just
unusual.”
If only those syndrome-happy
psychiatrists looked at it this way.
Overheard by Hannah of
St Ives, NSW.
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